Thanks to you for all of your comments. Looks like I stumbled onto a sore
spot. Should we choose Authorware, what are the most nagging limitations that
somone spoke of?

Also, how hard is it to learn? In poking around in some other threads, some
answers looked like the user would need to be familiar with "programmer type"
stuff like variables, branching, etc. Is this a product geared for a training
course specialist or is it suitable for the department head (a scientist) to
make some training materials without devoting his/her life to learning the
Macromedia version of Visual Basic?